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My Day on the Chena

Report at a Glance

General Region	Fairbanks, Alaska
Specific Location	On the Chena river @ Pioneer Park
Time of Day	Afternoon
Fish Caught	Grayling
Conditions & Hatches	No apparent hatch going on.

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GldstrmSam

Fairbanks, Alaska

Posts: 212

GldstrmSam on Jul 26, 2012July 26th, 2012, 7:22 pm EDT

This afternoon I went down to the Chena river and tried my hand at some more grayling fishing. I used my favorite fly for grayling (a bead-head Brassie) and caught about a dozen in the course of a few hours. I also tried a caddis dry, but I only caught one with that.
I was very surprised considering it was a sweltering 85 degrees today.

Sorry, but since it was catch and release only for grayling I did not get any photos.

Sam

There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm. ~Patrick F. McManus